NAME

ipcad —

IP accounting daemon with Cisco-like ip accounting export

SYNOPSIS

ipcad [-h] [-c config] [-d] [-r] [-s]

DESCRIPTION

IPCAD stands for IP Cisco Accounting Daemon. It runs in background and listens traffic on the specified interfaces. Collected statistics can be obtained via the same method used to gather ip accounting from Cisco routers.

OPTIONS

The options are as follows:

-h: Print the help page
-c config: Specify configuration file
-d: Work in background
-r: Import saved accounting table on startup
-s: Save the active accounting table on exit

RSH COMMANDS

Once started, ipcad listens for rsh requests and/or exports NetFlow. In case of rsh, data can be requested from ipcad by issuing a following:

rsh localhost command

Commands may be freely abbreviated.

Recognized commands are:

help	Show available commands
show ip accounting	Show current accounting table
show ip accounting checkpoint	Show checkpointed accounting table
clear ip accounting	Move accounting to checkpoint base
clear ip accounting checkpoint	Clear checkpoint base
show interface <ifname>	Show interface status and counters
stat	Show overall interface status and statistics
dump [<pathname>]	Dump current accounting table
restore [<pathname>]	Restore current table
import [<pathname>]	Import (add) entries from specified file
shutdown	Shutdown ipcad

EXAMPLE

Run ipcad as daemon, import saved state tables on startup and save them on exit:

ipcad -rds

Save statistics: the following commands will save statistics for further processing. No data loss will occur in this case.

rsh localhost cle ip
  acco

rsh localhost sh ip acco checkpoint
  > file_to_parse

Please refer to ipcad.conf(5) manual page for NetFlow configuration options.

AUTHORS

Lev Walkin <vlm@lionet.info>